The Triumph of the Baroque. Wooden Carving, Wooden Sculpture and Silversmithing of the Church of the Third Order of Saint Francis of Elvas in the first half of the Eighteenth Century

Abstract

The new Church of the Third Order of St. Francis of Elvas started being built in the early 18th century had important works of artistic enrichment in its internal areas, particularly in the 30s and in the 40s of the 18th century, which can be handled in this study, namely the altarpieces of the main chapel and the side chapels of Nossa Senhora da Conceição and Senhor da Penitência. Besides these items, the works of wooden sculpture of “João Baptista genoves” and a set of altar canons executed in Rome by Giovanni Paolo Zappati will also be analyzed in this approach.